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Why do you ship BoButter — not hating! I just haven’t seen it as much!

hi! that's alright, i will try to explain my position

how should i put this... i like them as a couple more not because they had a lot of interactions throughout the show, but rather because of their potential. they are my favorite characters - they're both incredibly well-written - and i also like them individually, independently of each other, and how they could grow up being in a relationship is a very interesting topic to me

so here's the reason: they work well together. why? i'm planning to make a post about this one day, so for now i'll try to be brief:

- on a superficial level they differ, but if you look deeper, you realize that they are very similar (both had acting careers, similar coping mechanisms, same age and gender). they would understand one another well, without being completely identical to each other and thus living in a kind of echo chamber (as in the case of todd and pb f. e.)

- at the same time their differences are not as critical as diane and pb had, and if they really tried to understand their partner, they would truly complement, not suppress each other

that's why by the way their relationship is possible only after the end of the series (aus don't count), where both characters have gone through a long path of growth and, finally, are ready to build healthy friendship, which after a while could turn into something more

for instance: bojack would become more independent with mr peanutbutter, as he would have to solve his problems himself because pb, due to his forgetfulness and carelessness, simply would not be able to do it for him, as princess carolyn did; mr peanutbutter, in turn, would not have to suppress the desire to make big gifts since bojack just would not mind this. he also wouldn't finally have a partner who was much younger than him. and so on

- and. imho bojack wouldn't simply be able to build healthy equal relationships with women because of his mommy issues lol. he's too old to completely rebuild his mindset, and well... i can imagine post-canon!bojack being actually happy and not self-destructive only in a relationship with a man or being single at all. but that's just me

and yes, they certainly wouldn't fix each other. i rather see it this way: they go through their personal growth, supporting each other and becoming good friends. in turn, a strong closeness and a huge common history, as well as the growing sympathy in general, contributes to the emergence of romantic feelings and one of them ends up confessing to the other, and that's where they start dating.

i also get that they could just remain friends as well, and that would also be great, but being romantic partners, in my opinion, would further expand their potential and gain personal growth as characters. they have every chance of becoming great partners for each other for the rest of their lives (which is not very long)

so yeah, i myself can't say that there were many interactions between them in the show, but i rather like their potential and the dynamics of their relationship. i hope i answered your question anon!

i drew it because i was very frustrated

this is what mr peanutbutter sees every day now

Just wanted to say how much I adore your art and the reverse AU

AAAAAA! I can't get enough

ooohh thank you!!!!! it makes my day to hear that!! :)

i want to say that my good colleague @fandomfreakstudios make a huge contribution to this au with their posts as well. without them i'd probably have given it up already lol

here's a quick draft for you!

i kind of made a huge post with lore for agent!pb au, but then i just erased everything because i am tired of such posts. it looks like i'll have to write a fic or something. in short, he's a cool guy who, due to his work as an agent in the hollywood film industry, is much less trusting and more responsible than his classic version. and he's not having an affair with bojack. as it was with pc. i hope that i will be able to create another work, because i am quite interested in this concept. i'd be glad to hear your opinion! :)

a brief description of the au i'm talking about below

mr peanutbutter was originally going to be bojack's agent, a cool and smooth-talking guy, and he was also supposed to be a golden retriever. so i made au based on this concept

Honestly thinking about the friendship between Agent!PB and Princess Carolyn as coworkers. I know we kinda talked about that a while ago but that friendship still feels like it would be really fun to explore ough

yeah i think so too! they are generally friends, not really close, but still - they don't have a rivalry like pc has with gekko for example. i would say they have more of a partnership: pc eventually founds vim and calls pb first, who happily agrees. and they are always willing to help each other out ofc, but in the end obviously expect the same in return, so it's more of a quid pro quo than a sincere desire to support a friend lol. overall it seems to me that their relationship is not much different from the original, but there is definitely respect and equality here :)